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Volume LVIX
Clinton, S. C w Thursdoy, January 9, 1958
Number 2
Commerce
e
Directors
Hear Rimer
A meeting of the board of direc
tors of the Chamber of Commerce
on Tuesday was featured by the
appearance of Shelton J. Rimer,, of
Greenville, who told of pending
plans to establish a mobile homes
plant in Clinton, provided certain
requests to be made to the State
Highway Department are granted.
Mr. Rimer recently purchased
the plant of Mobilhoraes Corpora
tion, of Lenoir, N. C., whcih includ
ed a site and several buildings in
Clinton owned by the corporation.
Present also were members of
the Laurens County legislative
delegation, including Senator Rob
ert C. Wasson and Representatives
W. Paul Culbertson, William C.
Dobbins and T. David Sloan, Jr.
The Legislative Affairs Commit
tee of the Chamber of Commerce,
,with W. R. Anderson, chairman,
city officials, and other interested
citizens of the city, including Tbm
Plaxico, Clinton member of the
County Planning and Development
Bpard, were present.
The group later had lunch at
Hotel Mary Musgrove, arranged by
the Legislative Affairs Committee.
Mr. Rimer, who deals extensively
in the sales of mobile homes, with
establishments at Greenville, Myr
tle Beach, and Augusta, and plans
to enter the manufactuHng field,
’ stated that his plans for putting a
plant in Clinton depend upon the se
curing of permits to move 10-foot-,
wide mobile homes ^ all points in
the state and througnflie
othdf states.
Present state laws prohibit mov
ing mobile homes of that width over
hgihways of the state except with
individual permits for each unit
over a designated route secured
woul dimpose to great a handicap
from the highway department. This
on business operations, Mr. Rimer
said. Two mobile homes manufac
turers who recently established
plants in Georgia,, he said, would
have been -Interested in locating in
South Carolian had it not been for
the stringent requirements of the
highway ^ejiartment.,
Mr. Rimer went on to say that
North Carolina and Georgia permit
free movement of mobile homes of
the 10-foot-width over highways in
those states by properly licetped
carriers and companies with prop
er equpiment. He said that he was
not in favor of relaxing entirely
the regulations to allow anyone to
attach such a mobile home behind
an automobile and haul it over the
highways, but felt that reputable
bondech business concerns with
proper equipment and experienced
drivers should be allowed to deliver
their products to customers at any
point over highways in the state.
Legislative Delegation Hears Requests of Citizens at Session Monday
March of Dimes Campaign
Gets Underway in Clinton
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Two Polio Clinks Scheduled in City
T
Dimes and clinics slant marching chairman,
a ainst infantile paralysis in ( Im
re
Here are members of the Laurens County legislative delegation as they met at the
Court house in Laurens Monday for the annual meeting of the group to hear requests and
suggestions from citizens before gOlng lo ColumhlaTnext Tuesday for the meeting of th<
legislature. Left to right are Representative T. David Sloan, Jr., Senator Robert C. Was-
Council Names Plaxico
To City Bond Commission
« e
Reaffirms Contract for Water Plant
City Council at its January meet
ing Monday night reaffirmed the
awarding of a contract to' Fjske-
Carter Construction Company of
Spartanburg for building a new wat
er filtering plant for the city, and
named Tom Plaxico as a member
•state -to Q-if Q5 e g on( j Commission to fill
a vacancy. —
Routine matters also engaged the
attention of council.
Council voted to regard as official
the recent' letter of a contract to
the Spartanburg firm, second low
bidder on the contract for the' water
plant, after hearing an explanation
of the time element involved by
Messrs. Gillespie and Jones of In
dustrial Builders of Anderson, low
bidders. The Industrial firm spe
cified 365 days for completion of the
job in their bid and Fiske-Carter
had stated 280 days, and it Was upon;
this point that city council deter
mined the awarding of the contract.
Mr. Gillespie and Mr. Jones point
ed out that there was no specific
starting date given for the job in the
specifications and therefore the
completion date was of little signifi
cance.
The difference in the tw j bids was
approximately $2,000. j
Council unanimously elected Tdm
Plaxico, Clinton automobile dealer,
as a member of the City Bond Com
mission, succeeding Richard E. Fer
guson, who died recently. The Bond
Commission is charged with rec-
ceiving and paying out 27 mills lev-
Delegation Holds
Meet Monday in
Officials To
County Farmer Proftts By
Raising Aromatic Tobacco
Harold Y. Tayldr, of the Ora
community, is not worried about
cotton acreage control, for he grows
aromatic tobacco at a profit. In
1957 he had a profit of $279 66 per
acre, believe it or not.
County Agent C. B. Cannon secur
ed from Mr. Taylor a record on his
two acre production of aromatic
tobacco and the results are given
to show that farmers have unlim
ited markets for certain crops with
out the government dictating the
farm operation. ' V
Mr. Taylor’set two aefes to aro
matic tobacco beginning the , last
of April and finishing the first of
June, using only the help of his chil
dren. He mixed his fertilizer and
applied 550 pounds per care in 24-
inch rows. The plants were set ap-
prdkimately five inches in the drill.
Two or three cultivations and three
hoeings were the extent of cultiva
tion. One hundred pounds of poi
son w^ applied during the growing
season to control bud worms.
Approximately 50 days after the
tobacco plants were set in the field,
Mr. Taylor was harvesting and" cur,-
ing tobacco for market, which open
ed the first of August in Anderson.
County Treasurer
Reports $573,975.34
In Tax Collections
County Treasurer Sam M. .Lea-
man on Monday reported 1957 tax
collections of $573,975.34 when the
.books closed for the year on De
cember 31.
Total charged for collection was
$700,177 44 A balance of $126,202.-
10 remains to be collected, Mr Lea-
man said.
Tax payments for 1957 made dur
ing January carry a penalty of one
.per cent, increasing to 2 per cent
for February, 3 per cent for March,
and 7 per cent until April 15 when
the books wil close. Taxes remain
ing unpaid after April 15 are sub
ject to penaMy and execution costs.
Charging for fertilizer, labor (al
though he and his children did the
work), rent at $12.00 per acre, cost
of plants (although he grew them),
Mr. Taylor’s record of his operation
showed a gross return of $1,1150.63
from two acres of tobacco that pro
duced 1,089 pounds of aromitac to
bacco. The total cost of production
was $59L30, or $295.65 per acre.
The net profit was $559 33 or
$279 66 per acre. The tobacco was
sold on grade to the Aromitac To
bacco Company at Anderson.
Mr. Taylor has been growing to
bacco since 1950 and has made a
profit each year. Under present
farming conditions, it appears, that
it is not--a questioh of farmers pick
ing enterprises of their desire, Mr.
Cannon said, but they must consid-
ejr and select $ych enterprises
where markets are available and
not under government control., Peo
ple are going to smoke, chew, drink
and sometimes “cuss” about condi
tions, but we must face the facts as
they are,.he said. *
At a da*e in the near future those
interested in growing tobacco will
have an-opportunity to sign a sim
ple growers’ contract with the to
bacco company.
Jr. Cannon said no one_.should
a tem-pt to produce tobacco without
proper curing barn and heating out-'
fit. adding that equipment is not
unreasonable in price.
George C. Johnson, of Kinards,
grew one and one-half acres of aro
matic tobacco for the first time in
1957, and' did better, than he ex
pected, Cannon stated. He built
a modelm miring barn and installed
oil heating equpiment for curing;
He expects 5 idjjjrow a" larger acre
age in 1958 as some of his Negro
tenants are interred in growing
tobaco.
The question in the minds of city
business people of
ied in the city’s tax ordinance for
paying off bonds and interest on
bonds, and also certain revenue from
receipts of water and electric de
partment for the same purpose.
Monthly payments are made by the
city to the Bond Comnrission. \
Council passed a resolution ex
pressing regret at the death of Mr.
Ferguson and directed the city clerk
to write the family of the apprecia
tion of the council for the service
rendered by Mr. Ferguson as a
member of Ihe Bond Commission,
who >ias its chairman
Council directed that a street in
the new subdivision- near the high'
school, running from.N. Adair St'
to Caldwell St. be named Sterling
St. ’ v .
City Clerk and Treasurer W. B.
Owens preserved a statement of re
ceipts and disbursements' for the
month of December, showing reve
nue of $117,499 and expenditures of
$45,086 41.. It was pointed out that
year end tax collections accounted
for the,greater than average income
for the month.
Included in expenditures was $10,-
399:63 turned oyer, to the Bond Com
mission for payment of bonds and
interest.
. A budget report on operations of
the city departments for the first 1
three months. of the fiscal year
(Sept.-Oct.-Nov.) revealed that the
departments operated well within
their budgets, with 80.75 per cent of
the $546,350 budget for the year be
ing unexpended.
Mayor J. F. Terry presided over
the meeting, with all cobncilmen be
ing present:- Frank M. Boland, ward
one; S. A. Pitts, ward two; Harry
C. Layton, ward three; James P.
Sloan, ward four; Woodrow L. Wil
son, ward five; James C. Craine,
ward six.
Present also were department
heads: B. Ri Austin of the utilities
department, Chief B B. Ballard of
the police department, and Tom
Carter of the street department
Meet With
Lions Club
ton this week
Advance letters from gifts
chairman J .1 '"CorTiwall wont in
tho mail Wednesday night to open
the first phase of the annual three
week campaign to raise funds for
the National Foundation of infan
tile Paralysis.
Presbyterian College students al
so kicked off their dr>vo Wednesday
morning with a special chapel pro
gram and followed that afternoon
with a. clinic to receive, second
and third polio “shots -
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ATTEND POLIO CLINK 1
Immunity against paralytic in-
! fantile paralysis us possible, but you
j must have your vaccination. Make
! sure you attend one of the conven
iently located climes in the business
I district next week
i Third, "shots" will lx* given at the
j final clinic sponsored by dhe Mer
j chants Division of the Chamber of
tamimerce m the directors room of
| the James E Wolfe Agency on next
Tuesday between 1 00 p m and
to pm
Another clinic, sponsored by the
County legislative tens for -25,000 for improvement of poll0 cam p a , Kn> w ,u w held Thurs
an open meeting farm to market roads that lead into t ^. )y at Howard’s Pharmacy, aiql
all groups who have not yet started
a bijitatiijn
■ft f ’he
son. Representative W. Raul Culbertson,, and Representative William C. Dobbins. The
meeting was conducted in the court room and a number of residents and officials of the
county appeared to make requests of the delegation on various matters.
—Photo by Dan Yarborough
Annual
Laurens
Citizens Appear to Make Requests
The entire Cabinet of District
32 A Lions International will meet
with the Clinton Lions Club Friday
night at the Hotel Mary M^usgrove
at their regular rheeting at 7:30 p.
m i ■ i ~
Lion Vic Chapman of Ander
son is District Governor of 32-A
and serving with-htm are four Dep
-qty •'District Governors and eight
Zone Chairrh^rT Other members of
his cabinet include a cabinet sec
retary-treasurer, a cabinet chap
lain, chairman of honorary f-ommit-
tee, public relations chairman, the
state secretary, and a number of In
ternational counsellors,
men are expected to attend this
meeting which is an experiment for
the cabinet, this being the first time
an entire cabinet has met with a
Lions club for their regular mgeting.
The District Goverdor will hold his
official cabinet meeting immediate
ly after the Clinton'club adjourns
Lion R S. Truluck. a member of
the Clinton club and a member of
the District Governor’s cabinet, has
arranged for the meeting and has^wi h
j invited all members of the advisory
committee consisting of the
dent and secretary-treasurer
The Laurens
delegation held
Monday morning at the eburt house the city He also spoke for Mayor
in Laurens and heard requests Joe P Terry, who was unable to
from citizens prior to the opening of [be present at, the meeting, in mak
the session of the legislature in Co- mg the same request for Clinton.
lumbia next Tuesday
As it, turned out. most of the re
quests and communications were
relatively minor aijd.had little to do
wilhJgglslaUoJl. The meeting lasted
only about three hours, and com-
II A Ropp requested continua
tion of the payment of $50 per
month rent for the ASC office in
Laurens
Mr and Mrs J L Adair request-
their series of "shots' ai;e urged to
take advantage of this opportunity
Businessmen and employee groups
who have not already signed up for
this program may contact Mrs.
.larrx". Macdonald, clmrTVhairmun.
pointed out that modern
■ m benefit 'ni*^>ut
f on-c J 'in- (no i * mi persons Mive
today who have had paralytic pqlio
and are not already provided for.
Hn - national -aial is >44. , JO<)tOOO
Business houses will throw their
fall simpor into the Clinton effort
• x' •y.'xk ,u.’d‘T, die leadership of
■ Business aid Professional Wo
men > Club Envelopes will be dis-
irihuted to employees next Monday,
and this phase of the drive will cul-
mrtnate in a businessman’s
inarch, .to die <Tint<*n Cafe to re-
jx>rf their proceeds n Friday
morning, January IT
At the-same time next week, the
I'otlight will focus on uptown Vlin-
h-s sot up to. encourage as many
persons as ire eligible, under the
j'group plan to receive inoculations
against polio * -
Kien as these mmediate actions
ire being taken, plans are being
developed for future events, and
projects m support of this worthy
program Bridge and coffee parties
will be staged, the teen agjers are
planning a dance and the women
(wnnl in particular toward the cli.-
inactio mother's march" on Jan
trirv 31
Civitan Club To -
Have Charter Night
Banquet Tonight
ed that work be done on the roatf",’,
pared'*o last year,-when the session leading to thyir home in the Hope- druggists, and
cook up the greater part of "a day, Wt >ll section near Clinton made available to groups
was somewhat shbrter than ex- Winfred Norris spoke for himself, special fee of 90 cents
pelted. Herschel Thomason, Dessie Wilkes ^
Senator Robert C. Masson presid- an '^ I be Baldwin family in seeking The drive is developed around the
od, being' flanked by Representa- j *<>rk on a road running between
lives W Paul Culbertson, William
! 0. Dqjbbins, and T David Sloan, Jr.
The, chit f item in request^ made
All of tnesei 0 * t * ie delegation was that of a dele
gation from the city of Laurens,
headed by Mavor Joe Medlock, who
w a* the chief spokesman, a n.d
Dwight F Pat erson, new president
of the Chamber of Commerce', rela
tive to a division of costs in provid
ing water and, sewer* facilities for
tnp 41 e w Graham Manufacturing
plant near the city A list 'of pro
posed jtems with their estimated
costs was submitted, including a
100,000 gallon elevated water tank
foundations, valves', fittings,
etc., a 6 inch water line with fit
presi-jt ngs and valves, and an 8-inch sew
of ail j er line Costs inside the city were
and outside
Lions clubs in Zone 6 (Laurens > estimated at $21992
County and Enoree). to attend this he city, $61,61^7
pecjal meeting it was stated that an agreement
Lion President William P Jacobs to assist manufactuirng plants in
urges 100 per cent attendance for 1 securing facilities had been made
the meeting, and requests that mem by a former delegation but at least
hoi s come early and meet these dis I one member of the present delega-
tinguished
the Mate.
Lions from all parts of
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R. C. ADAIR IMPROVING
Friends of R ^C. Adair, vice-
president of M. S Bailey & Son,
Bankers, will be glad to know he is
improving following a ten-day ilh taken Monday
ness at his home on West Walnut Mayor Merlock renewed the an-
-treet ' ■! -ual request for the city of Lau-
don expressed himself as being
morally bound to honor such an
agreement Others said they were
prepared to-go along w ith anything
reason a’ k*. H
As was true with most requests
made at the meeting, no action was
Highways 72 and 56 at the limits
of Clinton . I--
Sheriff C. W Wier requosted one
(Continued on page four)
Police Department Fines
For December Are $1,781
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Six dru’ k drivers aniCTJ persons released and the remaining offend-
c Kii ged with drunkenness led the er.s were fined $95
list of 85 arrested on # vanuus charg- Other charges included violating
t*s during December and \paying the liquor law, one, $55. fighting,
fines in city court five, $53 arid 30 days, operating
Five of the s'x drunk drivers .into without driver’s license, four,
paid fines of $100 each and the oth»J$32 and 15 days; carrying conceal^
er was given 30 days on the public ed weapons, one, $27. disorderly
works Of ihe 32 arrested for drunk- conduct, three, 4wo suspended, $12;
enress, two were relased, four cas
es wire suspended, and the others
paid $425 40 and given* 167 days,
according to the report of Chief B
B Ballard submitted to city cottn-
»il at its January meeting Mon
day night.
Fines for the month totaled $1.
781 40
y The sentences and fines were lev
ied /bv Mayor Joe P Terry, who
presides over* city court.
Eight persons charged with petty
larceny were fined 5277 and given
120 days. •-
Speeding and reckless driving
was the offense by eight One was
l>> u k phone at l4.).) ^^^ ,„,^rhe charter of the recently or-
Both’rltnWs are being conducted i> amze( i Clinton Civitan Club will he
in cooperation with the doctors and, prpsent ^ toni g ht ,Thursday) at a
mocluations a r li^rter Night " banquet to be held
at the in Presbyterian College dining
! '*ril beginning at 8
Toastmaster will be\ Julian Foster
pie- ident of the Spartanburg Civi
national theme, “Survival Js , Notfian Club spo« „«• f the Clinton
Enough,” with badly needed funds uni p
to be used primarily for a massive speaker for ttv occasion will be
rehabilitation ffrogram Mrs Ben Luther Medlin, of Greensboro, N C .
Ha> Hammet, local campaign immediate past president of Civitan
International H^ has held a number
of important offices in.Civitan af
fairs. and holds a 'position w ith the
Greensboro schools
Following i.<" The'program for to
night’s session
Invocation—Rev M: X Sanders
Dinner.
Introduction of Guests—James F
Condon, district extension chair
man, Charleston.
Welcome to Clinton—Mayor Joe
P Terry
Communications—Edgar B Nor
ton. secretary CTmton Club.
Presentation of Charter a- Perry
vagrancy, one, 30 days, damaging slaughter, governor South Carolina
private or public property, one, «0 district
all otiier offenses, 13, one installation
da> s
.suspended, $222 and' 45 days. Two
were taken in for investigation oi
on suspicion and released
Violators of traffic laws number
ed 115, and they paid $83
Kiwanis Officers
Be Inducted Tonight
of Officers—William
B Price, lieutenant governor Zone
pn
t.rei
Introduction of Speaker — Wayne
Showulter, governor-elect South
Carolina dtsfhct, Columbia
Speaker — Luther Medlin, imme
diate past president of Civitan In
ternational _
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-Re'- Giles Lewis.
Benediction
Funeral Services
Staff in Office of Clerk of Court
various
w alks'of life, and'some farmers is,
“How much longer is the govern
ment going to pay farmers to take
land out of production and pay
them to do nothing?” Sound busi
ness is not built on such economy,
Mr. Cannon said
Installation of officers by the lieu
tenant-governor of the Ninth Dis J 4 J C ‘J
trict will be the featured attraction vOllGUCfCU iNOdY
of the Clinton Kiwanis Club meeting ——- f
this Thursday night - rAr W (FrA) \A/jpr
Allan W Murrary. prominent *''* "* X* •'w ”
Newberry business man w*ho serves * ♦-
as lieutenant-governor of the Ninth Funeral services for W. L. (Fro)
District, Carolinas Division, of Ki Wier, 68, were held Friday after-
wdnis International, will officiate on' noon at Gray Funeral Hume, con-
!the program scheduled for T p nf ducted b> the Rev ijines S. Gray
i at The Hotel Mary Musgrove
He will install A..C. Young as
[ president succeeding Howard Smith
who automatically becomes vice
president. James Vonllollen will be
reinstalled for anothVr term as sec
retary-treasurer oi the local organ
izatron/arid these*new direciors will
take office: G. Edward Campbell.
L H Lee and W C Sheuh
Registration Board
Meeting f figagemen ts
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Thursday, Jan. 9 (today) Whit
ten Village.
Friday, Jan. H),. .J.uok s store
precinct, Bethany School House.
Monday,- Jan. 13, Grays jm*-
cinct Knighton’s Chapel ~
Tuesday, Jan. 14,- SU-wart’s
Store precinct, home 'of W D.
'Stewart. * * '
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Wednesday, Jan. 15, Jones'
Store precinct, Wells Thompson
Grocery.
Thursday, Jan. 16, Owings pre
cinct, building next to post offfci*’
Friday. -Ian. l7, r Dials t^recinyt.
and Dr Redd Turner Burial wps
in D tin can Creek Presbyterian
; Church cemetery
Pallbearers were C W Wier,
Jr . Buford Wier. fonrWier, W C.
I Baldwin, K (’ Taylor, Jr . Jack
Holland. Dessie Wilkes, and Earl
j Dunn -
M War Tiled stiddenlv Wednes-
day at his home near Clinton. •
\.native of Laurens County, he
v as a son of the late Dr Thomas
W \ ,md Lou. Bu. h.aiian.:He
is member d Duncan s Creek
i P* esbytenan church and was a
veteran of World War -I, and a
member, of Campbell Lodge 44,
AFM ’ ^
Surviving, ire two daughters,
Mrs- •Xr'hurJ ' Kutzberg of Mobile,
Via and Mrs Harry E Baldwin
i Clinton . .five grandchildren.’two
brothe s. Sam L , Wier of Newber-
rv ird Sheriff C W. W'ler of Lau-\
•retis ‘ . ,
Brown Attending
SefrstorHn Miami
11. Harris Cant<
. I aitzp
V n \
Yard Of Month'
Llolcombe's
Shown above is Walter E. Dunlap, Laurens County Clerk of Court,
flanked by Mrs, James F. Goss (right), recently named Deputy
Clerk of Court, succeeding Mrs. LeKIlen Williams Slay, resigned,
and Mrs. Tommy Abrams (left). Mrs. Goss will do the work connect
ed with the courts and work with Mrs. Abrams, who, is concerned
. i • !
chiefl\ ViJh re orris ot the office. M s. Abrams has leen w 7 ^ th
office for six years, while Mrs. Gdss has been serving on a oart time
basis since spring.
Mr. Dunlap has been in'office since August 1951, serving one and
one-half years of the unexpired term of the late Vic Fleming. Dunlap
was re-elected to the office in 1952 and 1956.—Photo bv Dan Ya> orougii
The yard i# Dr and Mrs Fred
Holcombe on Liberty street has
been selected by the Gardenettes as
. Yard of the Month” for January
and a plaque so designating it
been placed op the lavfn
Dr Marshall W Brown, presi-
lent of Presbyterian College, is at-
!<•!><('ng he imuial qieeting of "the
Wocianie' of Vmencan Colleges
being held in Miami this week
Educators from throughout the
nation assembled oii Tuesday Tor
the meeting which* will continue
through Thursday
Dc. and Mrs'Brown left Sunday
has; afternoon for Miami and w ill return
i this Saturday —' . .
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